Sentences with phrase «for local grids»

Wouldn't it make more sense for local grids to be connected, share various power resources, and have high efficiency storage systems?

They will also produce surplus electric power for the local grid, which will displace more fossil fuels.

I participated at the beginning of a Hydro One, GE, IBM project which is hardening the distribution system with smarter central management combined with smarter semi-autonomous substations for local grid power management.

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That includes the cost of labor, panels — which will be imported until local production capacity is up to speed — and an unprecedented network of batteries that will be able to store this energy for measured distribution over the Saudi grid.

South Australian premier Jay Weatherill, who is standing for re-election this weekend, said the Whyalla project would benefit the wider community by improving local grid stability.

The Valbroye plant will provide renewable energy for the nearby Henniez bottled water plant and the Swiss power grid, as well as natural fertiliser for local farms.

All evidence points to Russia for hacking the Dems, US power grid, and even attempts at local state elections.

For New York, that equates to a reduction in carbon emissions of an estimated half a million tons per year while bolstering grid reliability and providing critical revenue into local governments.»

Paul Proulx, also a ranking member of the Fidi Neighborhood Association, said he joined the group specifically to advocate for much - needed city services and Downtown infrastructure improvements — most notably through upgrades to the area's colonial - era street grid, which locals have blamed for a whole host of quality - of - life and safety issues — that have been late catching up with the area's radical demographic shift.

Both Walsh and Juanita Perez Williams, the Democratic candidate for mayor who lost the election by roughly 4,000 votes, also said during the campaign a community grid would give local artists a positive opportunity to paint murals in a section of downtown.

Although more customers are investing in their own equipment for electric supply, like solar panels or even microgrids — a network of electricity users with a local source of supply and the capability to operate as an island during outages — the report says most U.S. customers will continue to depend on obtaining their power from the large - scale, interconnected electrical grid at least for the next two decades.

Today's power grids are designed for local delivery, linking customers in a given city or region to power plants relatively nearby.

In 1993, while Sladek was still battling for control of the local grid, some 100 miles to the northeast in Bavaria, Hans - Josef Fell was orchestrating a different kind of energy overhaul as a member of the town council of Hammelburg (population 12,000), his hometown.

The pair of papers, «Assessing the cost of large - scale power outages to residential customers» and «Providing limited local electric service during a major grid outage — A first assessment based on customer willingness to pay,» examined residential power users» willingness to pay (WTP) for full or partial backup services during a theoretical 24 - hour blackout and then determined the investments required by the electrical provider to implement these services.

A planned micro grid in a New Jersey city could be a model for making local communities more resilient to extreme weather

Each operator is responsible for the reliable and stable operation of their distribution networks and local grids and is required to meet demand by carrying out measures such as smart management and grid expansion where necessary.

Each computer, for example, is a component of the local grid.

These reactors could face extraordinary challenges, such as the recent twin blows of a magnitude 9.0 earthquake, which knocked out connections to the local power grid, followed by a wall of water that destroyed the fuel tanks for backup diesel generators and flooded critical electrical equipment, crippling the boiling - water reactors at Fukushima Daiichi in Japan.

The company that operates the state's power grid has a contingency plan in case of emergency shutdowns, says Dorothy Schnure, a spokesperson for Green Mountain Power, one of two local utilities that purchase and resell much of the power from Vermont Yankee.

The LED lamp holds great promise for increasing the quality of life for over 1.5 billion people around the world who lack access to electricity grids: due to low power requirements it can be powered by cheap local solar power.

SAM develops cost - of - energy estimates for grid - connected power projects based on local weather conditions, installation and operating costs, and system design parameters for a range of renewable energy technologies, including solar photovoltaics (PV), concentrating solar power (CSP), wind, and geothermal.

Set in the woods of Northern California in an off - the - grid town called Willits, a «haven for marijuana growers, meth addicts, and conspiracy theorists», the story is about a group of teens who get mixed up with a local pot farmer.

For example, the states were instructed to check boxes on a grid to signal which of their local school systems had signed a memorandum of understanding, or M.O.U., agreeing with the state to implement each of the many initiatives their plans promised if the state got the Race money.

There'll be plenty of other issues, too, when operators are riding in the back seats of their own cars, drunk, high, and shagging; when the electric grid fails; when terrorists hijack the systems; and when Grandma heads to her local CVS in Ho - Ho - Kus, New Jersey, for some bunion pads and winds up at the grindcore convention in Worcester, Massachusetts, because her 2020 Ford Taurus thought that was where she belonged.

For example, after transporting its owner to the airport, the IMx can park itself in a spot where the vehicle can connect to the local power grid and act as a «virtual» power plant by returning electricity to the grid, an extension of its vehicle - to - home and vehicle - to - building features.

In the mid-1850s, several prominent locals, including Julio Carrillo, son of Maria Carrillo, laid out the grid street pattern for Santa Rosa with a public square in the center, a pattern which largely remains as the street pattern for downtown Santa Rosa to this day, despite changes to the central square, now called Old Courthouse Square.

Hudson's demolitions expert is coming to the Nintendo Switch, complete with a new grid - based game that allows for up to eight players to go up against one another, either online or in local multiplayer.

Sensors on the powerline monitor and gather data about local system activity and are fed back to our control centre for analysis and planning of Nova Scotia's future energy needs... As we add more renewable energy to the grid, batteries can provide the utility with more flexibility to reliably address peak electricity demand with stored energy.

But even there, there are large parts of rural Africa where local solar (for instance) is already cheaper than extending the grid to supply fossil energy.

Each of the 53m high towers has three 22m blades and produces 600kw of electricity for the local electricity grid.

Local production and consumption of energy would eliminate the need for a smart grid, and would encourage efficiency and conservation.

The automatic adjustments used in global gridded data probably do a good job for what they were designed to do (remove spurious trends from global or hemispheric temperature series), but they should not be relied upon for more detailed local analysis, as Hansen et al. (1999) warned: «We recommend that the adjusted data be used with great caution, especially for local studies.»

Modern biomass - to - energy technology means that locally - sourced biomass can be a clean, reliable and renewable energy source for the future, replacing fossil fuels in local industries and reducing their reliance on electricity grids.

The economics of this off - grid business model rely on what it provides being affordable to poor households, as well as offering an improvement on the energy services they currently have (often kerosene or candle lighting, plus payments to local businesses for charging mobile phones) at a lower cost.

Many analysts see the potential for surging sales of these efficient vehicles to enable smart grid management, but few have explored the local impact of electric vehicles: promoting energy democracy.

The gasoline engine serves as an on - board personal electric utility for when you forget to plug in to the local grid, or for ensuring a total range to match that of any conventional car you'd buy today.

The local grid operator argued that the plant was a critical resource for backing up renewable generation in the area.

We then derive gridded medians and CIs for local committed SLR including all components, based on cumulative emissions and ice sheet case.

Fourth, the most cost - effective and significant avenue for emissions reductions is through fuel switching in the electricity grid, but state and local governments do not control the grid.

«Transmission owners should retain their traditional authority to consider resilience in transmission planning for local projects as well as planning on the distribution grid, while the RTOs must explicitly add resilience considerations to their regional transmission planning and market design,»

GRID Alternatives is a leading voice in renewable energy access, driving policies at the state and local level that support solar access for underserved communities and helping design and implement low - income solar programs.

«Transmission owners should retain their traditional authority to consider resilience in transmission planning for local projects as well as planning on the distribution grid, while the RTOs must explicitly add resilience considerations to their regional transmission planning and market design,» Exelon wrote.

Expanding energy efficiency and demand side management, adding more renewable energy, and shifting the fuel mix of the local electric grid have emerged as critical strategies for cities striving to achieve ambitious climate goals.

The landmark ruling of the state's Energy Commission is expected to lower the monthly cost of home ownership by $ 40, but it will also have significant benefits for the local economy and the electric grid.

And, we're making our datacenters» backup generators available to the local grid, boosting reliability while keeping prices low for all ratepayers.

We've also structured the purchase and partnered with the local utility in novel ways to make it easier and more affordable for cities and states to move to a cleaner energy grid.

For example, for a business in a remote area with an unstable local power grid, complete or high self - sufficiency could be worth the investment, especially if the costs associated with an outage are hiFor example, for a business in a remote area with an unstable local power grid, complete or high self - sufficiency could be worth the investment, especially if the costs associated with an outage are hifor a business in a remote area with an unstable local power grid, complete or high self - sufficiency could be worth the investment, especially if the costs associated with an outage are high.

in germany, the local network providers are often locally owned, and happy for people to leave or reduce dependence on grid.

A: Enbridge Gas installed a fuel cell system beside its head office that generates 2.2 megawatts of low - emission electricity for the local power grid.

«It's clear that the low prices for intermittent wind and solar bid at recent capacity auctions apply only when the local grid assumes all responsibility for balancing and grid stability.